More on Dream Candidates

Steven L. Taylor · Tuesday, January 24, 2012 · 2 Comments

To be quite honest, all these dream candidates people keep swooning over – Mitch Daniels, Chris Christie, etc. – aren’t all that much different than Romney. Governors, somewhat more moderate than the vanguard of the conservative movement. The big difference is that they have no organization, they aren’t on any ballots, and they don’t have any money raised.

So let’s please quit it with the pining over things that will never be: Gingrich will never be president, nor will Ron Paul. None of these Republican “dream” candidates will live up to their dream status and they couldn’t get into the race at this point anyways. Once-dream-candidate Rick Perry was always just a more boring, less charming George W Bush. Romney is the best Republican remaining in the race – at least if the GOP wants to win this thing.

Indeed.

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About Steven L. Taylor
Steven L. Taylor is a Professor of Political Science at Troy University. His main areas of expertise include parties, elections, and the institutional design of democracies. He is the author of Voting Amid Violence: Electoral Democracy in Colombia and is currently working on a comparative study of the US to 29 other democracies. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Texas and his BA from the University of California, Irvine. He has been blogging at PoliBlog since 2003. Follow Steven on Twitter

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E.D. Kain says:

Tuesday, January 24, 2012 at 13:35

I think you mean “Heh. Indeed.” Thanks for the link!

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Steven L. Taylor says:

Tuesday, January 24, 2012 at 13:39

@E.D. Kain: Actually, I was going to put indeed² but was having a formatting issue and just left it as is.

And: you are certainly welcome.

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